I'm trying to sort [1] a list of people randomly into groups. My guess
is that a list of lists will do the trick here. However, the randrange
fails with an empty range. How can I check for this? I thought that my
pupils list wouldn't reach zero with the while len(pupils)>0: would
keep it above 0.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
TIA
Adam
[1]
def groups(pupils, size):
toplist = []
tmplist = []
print len(tmplist)
while len(pupils)>0:
print len(pupils)
while len(tmplist)<=size:
print "tmplist is ", len (tmplist)
#How many pupils are we talking about here?
listlength = pupilslength(pupils)
rand1 = random.randrange(listlength)
tmplist.append(pupils[rand1])
pupils.pop(rand1)
toplist.append(tmplist)
tmplist = []
for i in toplist:
print i
print i
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